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CastJeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon, Shizuko Hoshi, Richard McMillan, Vernon Dobtcheff, David Neal, Philip McGough, David Hemblen, Antony Parr, Margaret Ma, Tristram Jellinek
Year released1993
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Opera singer Song tells diplomat René, “... then when she learns her husband has remarried, she kills herself. Now I believe you would consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct? But because it’s an Oriental who kills herself for a Westerner you find it beautiful.” (0:08)
Song asks René, “Are you mad coming here at this hour?” (0:35)
Comrade Chin tells Song, “You really are mad...” (0:58)
During a performance René makes himself up as a woman. (1:31)
René cuts his throat with a mirror and dies on stage. (1:35)
Reference in Mother (1996)